Posted
by
timothy
on Thursday February 02, 2012 @05:13PM
from the lo-unto-the-ends-of-the-earth dept.

itwbennett writes "The debate over enforcement of the GPL flared up again this week when Red Hat kernel developer Matthew Garrett wrote in a blog post that Sony is looking to rewrite BusyBox to sidestep the GPL. Which is a perfectly legal undertaking. But it raises the question: 'Is there social pressure within the Linux kernel community to not undertake GPL compliance action?' writes blogger Brian Proffitt. 'This may not be nefarious: maybe people just would rather not bother with enforcing compliance. Better, they may argue, to just let the violation go and get on with developing better code.'"

I don't know what the suitable punishment for such poor punsmanship would be - probably something appropriate but not poetic, like a gag and a straitjacket, just to keep you from making puns about your punishment.

I don't know what the suitable punishment for such poor punsmanship would be - probably something appropriate but not poetic, like a gag and a straitjacket, just to keep you from making puns about your punishment.